ha ha oh wow

I think I may have bought a romance novel on my Kindle.

Um.

Oops.

I just wanted to read something with Jack Frost in it, and, well.  It's getting kind of...heavy, I guess.

This is awkward.

It didn't sound like a romance novel when I first looked at it!  But it was only $4, so I bought it after reading the (completely innocent) preview.  And then they start making out.  UH...

Also, it reads like fanfiction.  Maybe that's why I can't stop reading it?  Ahaha.  I'm much more tolerant of smutty fanfic than smutty published things.  This is kind of like both:  published fanfic.

Like Twilight!

Except Twilight is only good to laugh at.


I wish there were more ebooks about Jack Frost that weren't published fanfic.  Sigh.

What?

I have a very bad habit of being less and less candid with the more people I come across.  This is why I really should stop looking at my stats page so much, because then I wonder, "what can I do to make these people like me"

In the words of Special Agent Pendergast, it's a very bad habit, but one I find hard to break.

It probably doesn't help at all that I am more paranoid than a normal person.  "What if they're only pretending to like me and think I'm an idiot oh god" is usually the feeling I get.

Anyway.

Today is my dad's 63rd birthday.  I'm going to make him some creme brulee as soon as Mom gets home with the heavy cream I need.

Fun fact:  my mom is 40 years older than me, and my dad is 44 years older than me.  This makes me believe that four is my family's lucky number.  (Which is pretty bad in Japan, what with 4 = death and all)  Also, we only have three people in the family, so maybe that's why I'm so lucky.

By the way, I had no idea where I was going with this post in the first place, other than hi, I have my first follower.  And Japan has found this.  うわ　恥ずかしい

ALSO APPARENTLY WE ARE GETTING SNOW TOMORROW??

New toys are awesome at being distracting

Oh my lord, I have been playing Brawl almost nonstop since last night.

With the exceptions of sleep and food.

I have played Brawl for at least nine hours.

That is nuts.

Mom suggested back when my Gamecube was new that I should get fingerless gloves to play my games in, because I have very bad sweaty palm syndrome (thanks, Dad) and it makes my controllers all disgusting unless I clean them after every session.  I'm thinking she's right.  I need to find some short fingerless gloves.

Sounds like a job for Sock Dreams (or just the internet) once they restock from Christmas.

Anyway, tonight I start catsitting for some family friends again, so I can get paid and buy more eBooks (oh crap, I'm obsessed) and things.  Like Gaia Cash and wigs.  Sigh.

I'm also very excited for the new issue of Shonen Jump, even though I have never been a subscriber to that (just Shojo Beat, which stopped being published and I got SJ as consolation) because the 5D's manga is in the process of getting translated.

Now I'm not as big a fan of the manga as the anime, but it's 5D's, and like I said before:  if it's 5D's, I want it.

Speaking of which, there were two YGO secrets on fandomsecrets today.  That made me very happy.  Even if one was angry and the other was "...well, am I the only one?"

No, person, you are not the only one who loves Divine.  He's awesome.

I should probably practice my hygiene and browse around some of those free eBook websites to see if I can get away with not paying for books I already physically own.  Okay, I'm kidding.  That sounds illegal.

Christmas (Part II)

First of all, I was going to post this yesterday, when it was actually still Christmas for me.

Merry Christmas.

(Source)

I got up early yesterday (for me, at least) and had French toast my dad made, then went and got ready before going back downstairs and opening presents.

I was definitely more excited for my parents to open their presents than I was about my own.  Which is saying something.  Dude, I didn't even try to snoop this year!  (Then again, I did notice a lot of FedEx-ing, so I knew many of them came from the internet.)

And now, presents:

I got a Kindle (what), Brawl (yes), Gunnerkrigg Court 1 & 2 (yes), new pajamas (YES), four chocolate oranges (yessss), those chocolate mints that I could eat until I die if they weren't quite so expensive (yessssss), and apparently Wheelie Breakers!  It's just not here yet.
Oh, and money.

I'm such a spoiled only child.

Mom was really surprised about the new camera.  As in, it was probably the last thing she ever expected.

Dad liked the Harry Potter movies; I can tell because we watched Order of the Phoenix after dinner and Skyping with Grandma.  He didn't exactly expect those, either.

I'm sad that Christmas is over.  I was so filled with the spirit thanks to Gaia (yeah, I know) and the Christmas event/forum's anonymous gifters that I got sad when Christmas Eve passed.

But it did make me determined to get all the items from my wishlist in time for me to accumulate enough gold to be an anonymous gifter next year, and the things from the cash shop (i.e. Premium Items, RIGs, and monthly letters) won't be a problem for me to get because I signed up for AutoCash.

If I don't like what's in the letters, I could either sell them and get more gold or save and gift them.

Now I just wonder what my nickname will be.

Anyway, I hope everyone had a nice Christmas (or holiday) and will have a happy new year.

Can you believe 2011 is in a week?  That's nuts.

As for me, maybe I'll post more between now and then, maybe I won't.  I'm still outlining my Firebird post (no pun intended) so it's organized and persuasive, but keep getting distracted by all my shiny new toys.

So yes.  Merry belated Christmas, and have a happy New Year. ♥

Christmas

That Crow/Aki post will have to wait a while, because I just have to say this somewhere, and I really doubt anyone I know reads this.

Unless they are secretly a ninja.

But that's beside the point.

Christmas presents.  I'm plotting with both of my parents about what to get for the other one, and I don't think they've caught on to each other yet.  If that was a confusing sentence, it means I'm conspiring with Dad about what to get Mom and vice versa.

And also Dad's birthday is on the 28th, so there's that too.

HERE'S MY PLAN:

For Dad:
Christmas:  Harry Potter DVDs, because he likes the series more than I do.  He hasn't seen 5 or 6, so I got those.
Birthday:  I think maybe I'll make creme brulee because he really likes it, but that would probably only be if he goes to work that day.  If he's thinking about it, I will just have to convince him, I imagine.

For Mom:
Christmas:  New digital camera, because she always complains about what a dinosaur the one she has is.  ("My camera is so fat compared to yours /sadface")  The downside is that she will complain about having to learn new controls.  On the bright side, she will now be able to say she has the newest camera in the house.
However, Dad and I haven't decided on one yet.  She's used to a Kodak and I'm used to a Sony.  Dad threw a Consumer Reports at me yesterday to do research, but it doesn't tell me all of what I want to know.  Last I checked, Mom doesn't need 3D pictures or HD video.  Just a camera that takes good pictures with flash, because she's one of those people who don't realize flash is better at making you look terrible.

And then for a friend of mine, I'm going to knit a scarf.  I don't know how much of a scarf person they are, but I'm in an I REALLY LIKE KNITTING phase, so it just makes sense to me.  I was going to get them a YGO card they wanted, but shipping from Hong Kong isn't all that speedy so it'd get here late.  Whoops.

Come at me, bro!

Holy crap, now there are people in China finding this.  This is weird; I need to stop checking my stats page.

Anyway, today I will be babbling about ships!  If you didn't expect to hear about ships in a blog called Nerd Locket then I don't understand your train of thought.

The fandom:  Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's.
The topic:  Faithshipping (YuAki | Yuusei/Aki)

Now before any Faithshippers get all OMG AREN'T THEY SOUL MATES?? - no.  No they are not.

This couple bugs me irrationally.  Everyone thinks it's the healthiest relationship evar because Yuusei doesn't use mind games like Divine did.  But it's not.  It's really not.

Maybe it's just me - I wouldn't want to be in a relationship like that.  I'll admit, something like Divine and Aki, while very interesting to me, wouldn't be very good either.  Stockholm Syndrome and mind games and all that.  That's really not good (understatement).  But, Yuusei and Aki aren't a load better, and I will tell you why I think that.

Interestingly enough, I actually liked this pair during the Fortune Cup arc, where it was sadistic as all get-out.

You know, back when she hated him.  (Source)

This may have something to do with an RP I was in as Aki and I had a fantastic Yuusei to play off of.

Back then, I thought Divine was the creepiest creeper to have ever creeped, and then I got one in the RP to play with and I started loving the hell out of him.  But that's not the point.  However, the Fortune Cup part is relevant.

Back when Yuusei was trying to break through to Aki's heart, she was resisting with all her might until it actually happened, sparkly dragon hugs etc.etc. mask shatters.  That was when she started realizing that Divine was a gigantic asshole.  So she turned to Yuusei for guidance!  After some battle therapy, anyway.

Doesn't sound too bad, yeah?  Well...

That was when she put Yuusei on a pedestal.  Divine had been her savior, and after he was gone, Yuusei took up the position.

Let me put that into perspective:  Divine was her Jesus.  Then he fell through a building.  So Yuusei became her new Jesus.

He's a rebound.

She doesn't want him to think for her like Divine did, that's a step up - but she works so hard to get his approval.  To get noticed.

However, Yuusei is pretty much robosexual.  He doesn't care about relationships, just how to make his D-Wheel better faster stronger.  He wanted her as a friend, to get her out of that poisonous relationship with Divine (this is coming from someone who ships it), and see her happy.  Just like all the rest of his friends, he wants her to be happy and safe.  There's nothing special about it.

Aki has a canon crush on him, yes.  The animators like shoving the two of them next to each other whenever they possibly can get away with it.  I really don't understand how that latter one could be taken as OMG THEY'RE CANON.

They're just two people.  Standing next to each other.  How would you feel if you stood next to some random person and everyone thought you were together?

So no.  They are not canon.  Frames in the OP/ED aren't actually canon, they're made for fanservice.  If Yuusei and Aki are doing shippy things in the OP or ED animations, it's not a hint.  It's not proof.  It's fanservice, it's superficial, and it's just done to make you Faithshippers happy.  That's not to say there haven't been hints at things in the past (see: Carly sitting with the Dark Signers during CROSS GAME), but not every little thing is a hint at future plot.

I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

But you know, if I had to pick someone for Aki to get together with eventually, it'd be Crow.

(Source)

He's kind of exactly what she needs.

They're a lot alike, but they're also different enough for it to be interesting.  She has a lot of growing up to do emotionally, and he had to do that at an incredibly young age.  He has playful maturity.  She has timid insecurity.  As a Satellite kid, Crow sees everyone as pretty much equal - there is no reason for one person to be treated very differently just because of where they live, what their history is, or whatever.

He might seem like a dork, but he knows when to get serious to knock some sense into someone and when to be gentle and patient (raising a litter of pet orphans can do that).  She, on the other hand, is 16 and was mentally unstable for something like two years (or more, if you count the situations when she was 5).  So she acts kind of like a spoiled kid sometimes.

But it would work for the better.

Well, that and they're pretty damn adorable.  (Source)

...I sense a CrowAki post in the future.

As for the title of this post, I've noticed a lot of Faithshippers are of the rabid variety.  So come at me, bro.  I'm anticipating your arguments.

It's the most! wonderful tiiiiime~ of the yeeear♪

Yeah okay.

I'm still sad we're not going to California this year.

At least we get a tree for once!!

When I was thinking of things to put on my Christmas list (yeah, yeah, shut up), I remembered what Mom told me about when she went to buy my DS Lite a few years ago.  Maybe more than a few years ago, really, because I had it when I returned to my old hometown for the first time.

Anyway.

I asked for a white one, because I don't really like pink all too well, the crimson/black one wasn't out yet, and black would show my greasy fingerprints too much.  Somehow this made the dude assisting her assume I was a boy.

"Daughter?  ...Are you sure she doesn't want pink?"

"...Yes."

"......"

"She asked for white."

Next time that happens, I'm going to type:

"DEAR PERSON: NO I DO NOT WANT PINK JUST BECAUSE I AM FEMALE.  IT IS SEXIST OF YOU TO ASSUME SO.  GIRLS CAN LIKE OTHER COLORS."

or something of the like.


what was the point of this post